Did David Cronenberg's The Fly, a very excellent film, really need a sequel? I hardly think so. And even if it did, I think they could have done a lot better than this garbage. It's nowhere near as good as the first, and even worse, it somehow ruins a lot of things about the original. At the end of The Fly, you could draw your own conclusion on what Veronica would do next but literally within the first few minutes of part II she is killed off.
The plot is terrible. They go with the old "evil company wants the telepods and fly creature" gimmick. None of the characters are likable and the relationship between Eric Stoltz and Daphne Zuniga is just tacked on to the horror unlike in first Fly, which does the exact opposite. Once it gets to the climax where it might actually redeem itself with some good horror, it instead just goes with old routine horror crap. There are at least two parts where an anonymous guard slowly and quietly looks around for the creature, finds nothing, says "well, there's nothing here" and gets killed by the creature that is conveniently hiding in an area where he couldn't see it.
I deeply hated this movie. The only thing it had going for it were its grossouts, and I admit they are gross, but they're pointless without a story to back them up. It's one of those sequels that you like to pretend never ever happened, but it's pretty hard to do when every DVD of the first Fly film is a double feature along with this second part.
My rating: 1/10
The plot is terrible. They go with the old "evil company wants the telepods and fly creature" gimmick. None of the characters are likable and the relationship between Eric Stoltz and Daphne Zuniga is just tacked on to the horror unlike in first Fly, which does the exact opposite. Once it gets to the climax where it might actually redeem itself with some good horror, it instead just goes with old routine horror crap. There are at least two parts where an anonymous guard slowly and quietly looks around for the creature, finds nothing, says "well, there's nothing here" and gets killed by the creature that is conveniently hiding in an area where he couldn't see it.
I deeply hated this movie. The only thing it had going for it were its grossouts, and I admit they are gross, but they're pointless without a story to back them up. It's one of those sequels that you like to pretend never ever happened, but it's pretty hard to do when every DVD of the first Fly film is a double feature along with this second part.
My rating: 1/10